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• Curious Case of Indian Knowledge System | Narender Nagarwal

  29 November 2025

  Introduction
  Considerable efforts have been undertaken in the proliferation of Indian Knowledge System (IKS) within the academic discourse in the country.
  Positioned as a revival of India’s ancient intellectual heritage, the promotion of IKS is being actively pursued under the New Education Policy 2020 by the government. However, a closer examination reveals a complex and paradoxical exercise that raises concerns about the potential erosion of key principles such as rational inquiry, (…)

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  29 November 2025, by Jos Chathukulam

  Abstract: Kerala

• Kerala Model of development and abolition of extreme poverty from the soil of the state | Radhakanta Barik

  29 November 2025, by Radhakanta Barik

  Kerala remains the model of social development for Amartya Sen, who worked out the Human Development Index (HDI), which empowers women and Dalits and others to be educated and live a healthy life because health facilities are available. HDI of Kerala is touching 9 points, which top European states have achieved. This model of development with healthy inter-community relations has brought back people of Kerala after retirement to their home state. They play an important role in participatory (…)

• Capitalism and ecology: from the decline of capital to the decline of the world | Paul Mattick

  29 November 2025

  ’Kapitalismus und Okologie’ (1976) by Paul Mattick, translated by Paul Mattick Jr. This article looks at ecological crisis, the Club of Rome’s ’The Limits to Growth’, and the work of East German philosopher Wolfgang Harich.
  The historical character of nature follows from the Second Law of thermodynamics, discovered more than a hundred years ago by Carnot and Clausius, spelling an increase in entropy ending in heat death. Our earthly life depends on the continuous supply of energy from (…)

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  Documentary Film: Deccan Queen 1966 | K S Raju (Film Division of India)

  29 November 2025

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  Deccan Queen 1966 | Film Division Of India Documentary Film | K S Raju | FTII by Hindi Radio https://youtu.be/bBaZBNl2lAQ?si=byhGo_VR3GSBindY

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  No to Privatisation of the Nuclear Energy Sector — Statement from citizens and social movement groups

  29 November 2025

  We, the undersigned supporters of the radiation victims of the various operations along India

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  Music: Chop Sticks - Billy Vaughn

  29 November 2025

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  Chop Sticks by Billy Vaughn - Topic https://youtu.be/XpO6rTAFfS8?si=SM7sYWQo9-nsz14H
  From: The Singles & Eps Collection 1954-62, Vol. 1

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Nov 22, 2025

  22 November 2025

  * Bihar

• Bihar’s Two Democracies : Where Women Fought Back & Where Hate Politics Won | Varna Sri Raman

  22 November 2025, by Varna Sri Raman

  In Seemanchal, record women’s turnout resisted voter suppression. In Bhojpur, none of that mattered

• Election Commission hands Bihar on platter to BJP | Arun Srivastava

  22 November 2025

  by Arun Srivastava
  Following the Bihar assembly election results on 14 November 2025, it is very obvious that the Narendra Modi-led Union government has tacitly used the election machinery and India